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M: Hahaha! Look at yourselves. All of you are so weak. Not soldiers, not warriors. Just arrogant civilians given a little toy. You should have just stayed at home and done your homework or something hahaha!

Gentarou: Don't laugh!

M:*laughs harder*

Gentarou: What's wrong about being a civilian? What's wrong about doing homework? What's wrong about going to school? Everyday is fun. We laugh, we cry, we cheer and we whine. Every day we learn something new and experience things that make us whole. We gather up our memories and emotions that eventually lead us to each of our paths. Someday we'll become adults. But not like the ones you know. We won't forget who we are, who we were. Those memories we gather here today. WE WON'T FORGET OUR YOUTH!

Wearing a long trousers with a T-shirt and a jacket that appear a size too big is a young man with a generic face that is neither ugly nor beautiful with normal brown hair that has no notable trait and eyes that are cold and vacant....

Watt Shepherd stood in the middle of a street of Reality Zone.... strange name for a city but never-a-less, the name of the town which the males are only allowed.

A rather depressing little town that looked no different from his hometown.

Watt put on a cap and walked to the nearest bench to lay down his briefcase to open it.

He pulled out a Tablet computer and put it in a place where everybody could see the content on the screen.

Then, like a professional street magician, he pulled out two long speakers from his briefcase. He inserted the plug of the Speakers into his briefcase and pressed a button.

The loud noise from the speaker caught the attention of the nearby passerby.
Noticing that he got everybody’s attention, Watt used his upper body and hands to pretended to dance to the music.

While he is doing so, a strange looking Teddy Bear with a long tail and a pair long ear, each with an orb with five spikes protruding out attached to it, stood up from the briefcase and rubbed its beady eyes with its little paw, almost as if it has been woke up by the loud noise.

The Stuff Toy waved its little fist at Watt while the tablet computer showed a cute angry expression with popping vein.

Watt pretended not to notice and continue to dance to the music. The Stuff Animal stepped out of the briefcase and walked over the speaker to switch it off.
Watt glared at the Stuff Toy angrily and switch on the speaker again.

The Stuff Animal switched it off again.

Watt switched on the speaker.

The Stuff Toy switched it off again.

Watt rubbed his chin as if thinking about something, then pumped his fist on his palm as if he had an idea.

Watt brought out a paper cup from the briefcase and took a slip.

He looked at the Stuff Animal challengingly.

As if not wanting to admit defeat, the Stuff Toy did the same unfortunately the water end up dripping down from its face because as a Stuff Animal, it lack a functioning mouth.

The screen changed to an annoyed expression as the Stuff Animal threw the paper cup down as if in frustration.

Watt gave a smug smile while the Stuff Toy took out a red paper cup with the word [HOT TEA] written on it.

Watt looked at the Stuff Animal puzzled expression.

The Stuff animal poured on Watt’s thigh.

Watt pretended whelped in pain, as he pull out a cloth out of thin air to wipe the seemly hot drink off his trousers.

The Plushie took the chance to leap up and steal his cap. The Stuff Animal spun the cap by its visor on its little finger before wear the cap on his head and folded its arms.

The Screen changed to show a prideful expression.

Watt stood up and gave a bow together with the stuff animal, signaling the end of the act.

It is apparently not a very entertaining show as a few people clapped.

Gentarou: What's wrong about being a civilian? What's wrong about doing homework? What's wrong about going to school? Everyday is fun. We laugh, we cry, we cheer and we whine. Every day we learn something new and experience things that make us whole. We gather up our memories and emotions that eventually lead us to each of our paths. Someday we'll become adults. But not like the ones you know. We won't forget who we are, who we were. Those memories we gather here today. WE WON'T FORGET OUR YOUTH!

Well, the current list is
> Chess-master with personal vendetta against the main antagonist (Louise)
> Girl who doesn't even have memory (Aeon) she was using Charlotte's should-be-disposed original body in fact...
> Young girl conscripted as I.S. pilot due to the family debt (Helen)
> Cadet rep that did what her country demanded to (Amalia)
> 'Evil' counterpart of Laura, well, not so much evil and more like raised horribly right to the core (Celeste)

All does Heel face turn later, but only after fought with the protagonist.

edit: and jump straight into the action while the cake party is more of a flashback

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I am trying to add element of sadness in. (remember: looking for sad and yet hopeful song few post back?)

Which is why there is a slight shift in term of theme.....

While it would still be light-hearted with the characters fooling around but there will be elements of darkness....which due to obvious reason (touchy subject), the characters try to avoid as much as possible.

Anything powered by normal stuff: Not much.... depending on how much energy we are talking about.

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Even if we did have something like that, it is going to be ungodly expensive and difficult to make and to maintain (due to being one of its kind)

With that in mind, where do you get the fund from?

Edit:

Yea... One sucky thing about real life is:

Nothing last forever (If you look at the sheer amount of things at work, your mind would explode....heat loss, fragile stress, sheer stress...etc, Most engineers don't take all of them into account because that would make their mind explode or take years to design.... Every design have risks due to uncertainty which an engineer could not predict, they could only try their best to minimize the amount).

Everything need maintenance.... otherwise they would break down.

Even with maintenance, the older the said machine, the higher the maintenance cost.